Region: Uganda’s army began evacuating citizens from inside neighboring South Sudan, where violence has reached historic levels. (Reuters)

Kenya: The perpetrator of the Kapenguria police station attack was a rogue officer, not an al-Shabaab recruiter as first reported. (Reuters)

Namibia: The country has formally appealed to the international community for help with drought following the declaration of a state of emergency. (Xinhua)

AMERICAS

Region: Oil giant BP PLC has put a final price tag of USD 61.6B on its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP)

Brazil: The air force will restrict Rio de Janeiro’s airspace during two separate periods between July and September to ensure security during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (EFE)

Guatemala: Police captured 106 suspected gang members in a series of raids against warring gangs responsible for a wave of drug violence. (Reuters)

ASIA

Bangladesh: The country will regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat Islamist extremism. (AFP)

Japan: US Navy sailor Justin Castellanos was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for a March rape of a Japanese woman in Okinawa. (Kyodo)

Korean Peninsula: South Korea demanded Pyongyang swiftly release a North Korean defector it had arrested on charges of attempting to abduct children in the isolated state. (AFP)

South Korea: An angry mob of protestors threw eggs and water bottles at PM Hwang Kyo-Ahn, calling for the retraction of a decision to deploy a US anti-missile defence system in their home town. (AFP)

EUROPE

Britain: London’s mayor Sadiq Khan said the city’s security measures would be reviewed after the terrorist attack in Nice, France. (Reuters)

Germany: German prosecutors have filed war crimes and terrorism charges against a Syrian man accused of membership in al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate and involvement in a 2013 kidnapping of a Canadian man. (AP)

United Kingdom: Theresa May was heading to Scotland in her first visit as Britain’s new prime minister, stressing her bid to maintain UK unity in the Brexit vote fall-out. (AFP)

MIDDLE EAST

Iran: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the US to choose diplomacy over intimidation and fulfill its obligations under a year-old nuclear deal. (AFP)

Iraq: Thousands of Iraqis rallied in the heart of Baghdad, in defiance of warnings from the government to stay home, to demand an end to sectarianism and corruption. (AFP)

Iraq: The US military expects to seek additional troops in the country, as the campaign against the Islamic State advances, US Army General Joseph Votel said. (Reuters)

Yemen: Aidaroos al-Zubaidi, the governor of the southern city of Aden, survived a car bomb attack targeting his convoy. (Reuters)